Officers: Nancy Adams Adamo - Secretary, Pamela Mudd Conlan - Treasurer, Ralph Devine – President, Jamie Onstot Tharpe - Vice President
Board Members: Deal Moore - Chairman, Carolyn Madden, Jeff Martin, Lauri White Ramsey, Fran Rolon, Melissa Sweeton Thorne, and David West
The meeting was called to order at 6:30 by the President Ralph Devine. Introductions were made all around.
Agenda Items:
Treasury Report - Pamela
So far we have $5851.00 for this years scholarships. We are well under our goal of 22,000 for the class of 2008 and further efforts for February through March for additional donations are needed. Please encourage everyone to take advantage of the ads posted on the Westchester Blog at http://www.westchesterwildcats.blogspot.com/ . Please see the attached report following the minutes.
Each committee chairperson reported on their committee’s mission statement and plans. The following were reported:
Events/Activities – Lauri
There is a social get together planned for Sat. Apr. 26 3:30-6:30 at Mockingbird Bistro. This will be an opportunity for social or business networking for Westchester Alums. There will be free hors d’ovrs, valet parking and discount prices on drinks. The owner, John Sheely ’77 and his brother Steven Sheely ’78 are providing this endeavor. Please see the Material posted on http://www.westchesterwildcats.blogspot.com/ for more details regarding this great event.
Our June meeting will take place on the weekend of the 7 &8 at the Galveston bay home of Lisa Hoyt Bays.
Scholarship Committee – David
David read his mission statement to provide scholarships to current senior class members of the Westchester Academy for International Studies. His plan is to raise monies by individual and corporate contributions. He would like to public and the Westchester PTA of to be informed of this. He is working with the school counselor, Beverly Martin, in getting the information out to the students. The May meeting we will look at the scholarship applications and select the winners.
Communication – Carolyn
Carolyn read her mission statement that is to promote the membership, scholarship fundraising and events by various venues such as: newspapers, websites, blogs, and yahoo chat room.
Membership – Fran
Fran and Jeff read their mission statement which is to increase memberships. Some questions were asked such as; Why did some members join and then didn’t renew their membership? How do we get them back? These and other issues will be worked on.
Class Leader Liaison – Deal
Deal stated there are eight board members who are the class leaders for their graduation year. We need to look into recruiting more class leaders.
Jamie brought up some information and questions in regard to the fall homecoming event that might change due to the changing of Stratford’s classification from a 5A school to a 4A school if the appeal doesn’t go through.
New Business was brought up with the proposal of having a mail out on a post card to members to illicit renewal and update e-mail addresses since so many change. This is will a cost to the WAA.
New member- Jenny Sornson, scholarship winner from the class of ’07, was in attendance at this meeting. She spoke about how the money she received helped her pay for some of her college. She was grateful for the opportunity to be able to receive the money. David West asked her if she was a Westchester Alumni member and she said no so David paid her membership fee so she could join the ranks. What a nice gesture on David’s part.
The meeting adjourned at 7:30
Treasury Report for February 11, 2008 Board meeting
As of January 31, 2008, we have $15,293 in cash and Certificate of Deposits in Washington Mutual Bank. This includes $4,939 in checking account, $3,095 in Wranglerette restricted funds in a CD, $1,482 in Class of 1976 restricted funds in a CD, and $5,776 in restricted Student Scholarship funds.
The Google AdSense revenue deposited in January was $0.22. Please click the ads on our blogsite daily to increase our monthly scholarship revenue.
http://www.westchesterwildcats.blogspot.com/
As of January 31, 2008, there are 10 polo shirts remaining. Over 2006 and 2007 we collected $1540 in donations for the polo shirts. Our costs were $1429. We now have a profit of $111.
For the month of January, we collected $60 in memberships. Expenses for January included $74 office exp & $17 website exp.
Submitted by Pamela Mudd Conlan, Treasurer
Scholarship Fund Report
A total of $11,851.50 has been collected in scholarship funds from individual alumni and the community at large from January 2005 through January 2008.
$1,070 in 2005
$6,046 in 2006
$4,685 in 2007
$ 50 in 2008
$6,000 was awarded as scholarships in 2007
Therefore, we have $5,851 for future scholarships. Further efforts for February through March for additional donations are needed to reach our $22,000 goal for Class of 2008.
Submitted by Pamela Mudd Conlan, Treasurer
Student Scholarship Fund
Class of 2008
Challenge
The Class of 1972 raised almost $4,000 in scholarship money for the Class of 2007. Individuals from Classes 1968 to 1985 brought our total scholarship fund to over $7,000. We awarded $1,000 each to six students on April 9, 2007 from the Westchester graduating Class of 2007.
Here’s the challenge:
For the Class of 2008 we challenge each class (1968-1985 and 2004-2007) to raise the most scholarship monies for upcoming graduating class of 2008. Beginning April 1, 2007 through March 31, 2008 all scholarship donations will be tallied by class and individual and sponsor. Check with your employer for matching donations and double your contribution for your class.
Our goal is for each class to sponsor at least one $1,000 scholarship for a total of 22 graduating Westchester students in the Class of 2008.
